steelwork
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- noun
- /ˈstiːlˌwɜrk/
- UK
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- You know, the first time I painted you outside the steelworks... maybe I shouldn't have shown you walking away.
- build a steelworks
Examples
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He came to Ebbw Vale to paint the steelworks.
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It's the biggest steelworks in Europe.
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In 1995, some service company employees were making salaries equal to or higher than those employed in the steelworks.
Academic text (1996) -
This city is the location for a large steelwork whose effluent is doing enormous damage to the historic buildings and sculptures of the city.
Academic text (1992) -
A huge 14-day strike at the Ilva steelworks had just been lifted.
Blog text (3) -
Terni: The day started with the general secretary of CGIL giving a speech in front of the Tk-Ast steelworks, a symbol of work uncertainty.
Blog text (3) -
But he made the grueling 24-hour flight back and went straight to the Port Talbot steelworks to be shouted at.
Academic text (2016) -
Fine PM and its components have not yet been measured in Asturias, which is also an industrial area with steelworks, glassworks, and chemical activity that could also have high levels of trace metals.
Academic text (2012) -
Maurice Chandler arrived at a time that historians consider the height of American modernization: railway building created and sustained hundreds of thousands of new jobs; new coal and iron mines; new coking plants; new iron and steelworks; new towns, which were also new markets; new skills; and new forms of financial and industrial organization.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's the biggest steelworks in Europe.
Synonyms
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3.3
A factory that makes steel from raw materials
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6.8
A factory where workers melt metal and pour it into molds
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3.7
A factory where steel is made from iron and other materials
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2.9
A factory where workers make steel from iron and other materials
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3.9
A factory or group of factories where people make steel
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4.2
A factory where people make things from metal like tools or machine parts
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Etymology
Steelwork comes from joining steel ('strong iron') and work ('making or doing something'), so a helpful way to remember it is as the place where people make or process steel. That's why steelwork can mean a factory or plant where steel is produced.